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[citation needed] Roman fishing boats used the port, and there is evidence that dates the Roman occupation of Xàbia to the 2nd century BC, it makes Xàbia the oldest known Roman site on the coast with a commercial port for fish and minerals.
The Xàbia Port The first known jetty and boat pier date back to 1871. When the raisin trade entered into crisis at the end of the 19th century, it then merely developed the fishing activity.
The density of the ports is a function of the economic density of the Roman Empire with clusters around the Aegean Sea (with the major city of Byzantium), the Roman coast (Western Italy, such as Ostia and Portus), Southern Gaul, Northern Africa (around Carthago and Alexandria), and the Levant.
[citation needed] Roman fishing boats used the port, and there is evidence that dates the Roman occupation of Xàbia to the 2nd century BC, it makes Xàbia the oldest known Roman site on the coast with a commercial port for fish and minerals.
- Romanization in Xàbia
- Roman Era Sites
- Montañar Necropolis
- Roman Pieces Recovered and Exhibited in The Museum of Xàbia
The Roman conquest of the lands of Xàbia began at the end of the XNUMXrd century BC (before our era) causing gradual and profound changes to the native Iberian population that we call the romanization. These transformations affected all spheres of Iberian society: economy, religion, language, material culture, etc. Thus, from the XNUMXnd century BC...
With the commercial activity, the deposits and the coastal points used as anchorages become part of it, some of them presenting peculiar characteristics: 1. Ceramic workshops specialized in the production of amphorae (la Rana, la Teulera). 2. Places of control or surveillance (Santa Llúcia) 3. Commercial settlement (la Duana, l'Illa del Portitxol a...
A few meters from the well-known Punta del Arenal was the great necropolis of the settlement known as the Montañar (Muntanyar). The Romans who occupied the Punta del Arenal area were buried very close to the site itself. The necropolis occupied a large area since it is located from the entrance of the current Parador to Duanes de la Mar, that is, e...
From this Roman period there are many and diverse materials recovered and preserved in the Soler Blasco Museumfrom Xàbia. Among the pieces are fine ceramics of different types, with a very wide chronology that goes from the XNUMXst to the XNUMXth century AD, which were produced in different parts of the empire: Italy, the Eastern Mediterranean, Gau...
The Port of Xàbia, Duanes de la Mar. The Port's origins date back to the 15th Century, but it was in the mid-16th Century when it acquired major importance which continued to grow in subsequent centuries; in the 19th Century, the city achieved its greatest success due to the raisin export trade.
Xàbia is the easternmost town of La Marina Alta, sitting on the southern slope of the Montgó mountain. It is situated at just 12 metres above sea level. Covering an area of 68.6 km², it comes in second with regards to its geographical expanse, behind only that of Benissa. It has a population of 27,983, known as Xabiencs and Xabienques.
